U with double acute (Cyrillic) explained

U with double acute (Ӳ ӳ; italics:

Ӳ ӳ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, derived from the Cyrillic letter U (У у У у).

U with double acute is used only in the alphabet of the Chuvash language, where it represents the close front rounded vowel pronounced as //y//, the pronunciation of the Latin letter U with umlaut (Ü ü) in German. It is placed between (У) and (Ф) in the Chuvash alphabet. It is usually romanized as ⟨Ü⟩ but its ISO 9 transliteration is ⟨Ű⟩.

It was also formerly used in the Altai alphabet of 1840.

See also

• Ӱ ӱ : Cyrillic letter U with diaeresis
• Ү ү : Cyrillic letter Ue
• Ű ű : Latin letter U with double acute - a Hungarian letter

References

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF . The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0 . 2010 . 43 . 2011-05-15.